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Wednesday’s game against its second top-10 opponent of the year started with Harvard grabbing a 2-0 lead. While the Crimson put another shot past Spartan goaltender Meagan Minson, San Jose State tallied four of its own, leading by one goal going into the second quarter...
...previous high for a March weekend had been the $70.9 million registered by the Spartan muscleman movie 300, while Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ had been the all-time opener in the January to March months, with $83.8 million. Even factoring in inflation, Alice is the unchallenged first-quarter queen. It's sixth among the most lucrative openings in movie history, after The Dark Knight, Spider-Man 3, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Shrek the Third. Which is to say, Alice had the top non-sequel opening weekend...
Greece's streets are covered in soggy confetti, remnants of this year's muted Orthodox carnival celebrations, which came to an end on Monday, the day when Greeks marked the beginning of Lent. For the country, a period of spartan repentance lies ahead - and not just because the seven-week period of Lenten fasting is starting. After years of overspending by both the government and ordinary people armed with credit cards - and now flush with credit-card debt - Greeks know the party is over. According to a poll released on Feb. 14, nearly two-thirds of people support the government...
...apartment Hassan shares with an Iraqi refugee and a fellow Somali, he shows pictures of his wife, son and daughter in Mogadishu. A calendar hangs on the wall as the sole decoration in an otherwise spartan room with two beds and a lonely CD player. Had he made it to Sweden, Hassan says he would have had his wife and children travel to meet him there. Now, he thinks he made a mistake in leaving. "Given a choice," he says, "I would love to go back home...
...electrically powered cars are going to develop. You're going to get two opposite poles, and both of them are going to be driven by the very high costs associated with battery technology. On the one hand, you're going to find small, very light commuter cars, with relatively spartan equipment. They will have lighter, smaller batteries with significantly shorter driving range - essentially good for urban commutes. On the other end of the spectrum - where the real technological advances are going to take place, and where the money will be spent - you're going to find the development of powerful...